Tag Archives: Shannon

Dredging in Limerick

Posted on Tuesday 15 November 2011 | Leave a comment

The Limerick Leader has a story here.

Posted in Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Operations, Restoration and rebuilding, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged dredging, Ireland, Limerick, Operations, Shannon, weir

Mid Shannon Corridor Tourism subsidy

Posted on Tuesday 1 November 2011 | 5 comments

I have been trying for some time to find out whether anyone has taken advantage of the Mid-Shannon Corridor Tourism Infrastructure Investment Scheme. I sent this email to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in July 2011; I received no reply, so I have sent it again today.

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Your website’s list of contacts does not include an email address for the section of your department that deals with tourism [it still doesn’t, on 1 Novemebr 2011], so I would be grateful if you would pass this query to the appropriate person.

I have some questions about the Mid-Shannon Corridor Tourism Infrastructure Investment Scheme. I would be grateful if you could tell me how many applications for approval in principle have been received.

Could I have a list of the applicants and their proposals please?

How many applications have been approved?

Could I have a list of them please?

On how many projects has expenditure been incurred?

Could I have a list of them please?

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Ireland, Tourism

Tagged Brian Cowan, Ireland, Offaly, Shannon, tax, tourism

The far end of the Shannon

Posted on Tuesday 1 November 2011 | 2 comments

Apologies to folk who have left Comments or otherwise communicated in recent weeks: I’ve been away, most recently at the far end of the Shannon and at Greenwich. I am now beginning to tackle my correspondence.

De Wadden

De Wadden formerly traded to the (Munster) Blackwater and is now displayed in a dry dock at Liverpool. I knew she was there, but I hadn’t known that the Kathleen & May, now on sale, was there too.

Kathleen & May

In Greenwich, I saw a bust of George Biddell Airy, late Astronomer Royal, whose work on the tides of the Shannon Estuary is of such great interest.

George Biddell Airy

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Posted in Ashore, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, People, Restoration and rebuilding, shannon estuary, Steamers, The cattle trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Airy, Blackwater, boats, De Wadden, Ireland, Kathleen & May, Shannon, tide, waterways

Shannon estuary: Aughinish

Posted on Thursday 20 October 2011 | Leave a comment

The Irish Times reports that Rusal, current owners of the Aughinish Alumina plant, want to increase production. See the plant and its “waste storage facility” here (satellite view on a larger map is best):

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, shannon estuary, waterways

Tagged alumina, Aughinish, bauxite, estuary, Ireland, Rusal, Shannon

Glorious Galway

Posted on Friday 14 October 2011 | 2 comments

Book by Meitheal Mara being launched on 20 October 2011:

Galway possesses an immensely rich heritage of boats, beyond compare on the island of Ireland and significant in the wider European context. This book covers not only the well-known craft, the Curachs and Galway Hookers but also the lesser-known ones: the wooden angling boats of Lough Corrib; the ubiquitous Curach Adhmaid; the fishing boats – Lobster Boats, Trawlers and Half-Deckers; the Barges and Hire-cruisers of the Shannon; the Flats, Yawls and Curachs of the oyster fishery; the clinker punts and cots of the Shannon callows, and many more.

Link to PDF.

The book can be bought from the Meitheal Mara website.

This site has no commercial interest in the matter but I am happy to draw attention to books on aspects of Ireland’s waterways history and heritage.

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Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Restoration and rebuilding, The cattle trade, The fishing trade, The turf trade, Uncategorized

Tagged boats, Galway, Ireland, Shannon, traditional

Love me tender

Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Leave a comment

Waterways Ireland tender documents are a source of interesting and occasionally useful information. At present WI is looking for tenders for

a hospitality guide
turf (sod peat) for bank repairs on the Royal Canal
automation of certain weirs. Expressing an interest in this one will allow you to get some original (Shannon Commissioners) drawings of parts of the old weirs.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, Restoration and rebuilding, Scenery, Sources, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged canal, Ireland, Operations, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, waterways, Waterways Ireland, weir

New Junction Canal (SEW) bridge

Posted on Monday 5 September 2011 | Leave a comment

The Anglo-Celt reports that Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, is to have a new “inner relief road” (a cure for indigestion?). The road will cross the Junction Canal (Shannon–Erne Waterway), or Woodford Canal as the newspaper calls it, on “an expansive new bridge”:

The bridge has to allow enough clearance for boating traffic on the canal. The new road will come out past the Old Ennis Mill location and just before the Quinn cement plant.

The work is to be finished by August 2012. The Waterways Ireland website has, as yet, no information about any interruption to navigation during construction.

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Posted in Ashore, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Non-waterway, Waterways management

Tagged Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Canal, Ballyconnell, boats, bridge, canal, Erne, Ireland, Junction Canal, Operations, Shannon, Shannon-Erne Waterway, Waterways Ireland